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- Title
Determinants of Interoutsourcing: An Analytical Approach.
- Authors
Bin Jiang; Talluri, Srinivas; Calantone, Roger
- Abstract
Interoutsourcing is a round-way process in which the vendor is its customer's customer and the customer is its vendor's vendor. While interoutsourcing is emerging as a prominent outsourcing strategy in many industries, there are no rigorous analytical studies focusing on this mechanism. In this article, we analytically demonstrate the efficacy of interoutsourcing by comparing it with normal outsourcing. Our results show that, compared with normal outsourcing, interoutsourcing acts as a self-enforcer of vendor firms' behaviors toward increasing outsourcing service value. However, in situations where there is a mismatch of outsourcing activities, a high degree of incentive that is based on outsourcing service value, and a high cost of capital, interoutsourcing is not preferred to normal outsourcing. We discuss these results in detail and provide managerial implications for firms involved in interoutsourcing decisions.
- Subjects
CONTRACTING out; INDUSTRIAL laws &; legislation; STRATEGIC planning; MANAGEMENT science; PUBLIC administration; BUSINESS enterprises
- Publication
Decision Sciences, 2008, Vol 39, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
0011-7315
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-5915.2008.00182.x